OT: Garment Shop

[Kelley]

No: HPFGUIDX 1943

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Peg Kerr <pkerr06 at a...> wrote:
> Well, yes, it was horribly expensive, and I was rather appalled at 
myself for doing it.  But I saw the cloak at the Renaissance Festival 
and thought about it, hard, for a month.  One of the things I liked 
about it is that it isn't lined with acetate, which in my experience, 
just rips out of coats.
> I've had to replace my last three winter coats because the lining 
ripped out (we wear our winter coats HARD in Minnesota).  I figured 
if I am replacing a $100 - $150 coat every two to three winters, I 
could get something for $350.00 that might last ten to fifteen 
years.  Finally, one night I had a dream about it, and that decided 
me.  If I was dreaming about it, I had to have it.

Well, goodness, for all the use you'll get from your cloak, it's 
seems like a wise investment for you.  Living in Minnesota, you'll 
get to wear it, what? Eight months a year? ;o] 

> So I went back to get it.  They have the cloaks in all sorts of 
colors (see the website), but I got mine in black.  I absolutely feel 
like a wizard when I wear it.  It's extremely heavy, and so 
voluminous that I can wrap it around both my kids when we're waiting 
for the bus together.

I bet it's beautiful.  I did go to the website, they have some 
absolutely lovely pieces.  I'd love to have one myslef, but for where 
I live, that would be a frivolous purchase to the nth degree.  Our 
winters here have been surprisingly warm the last several years.  In 
Jan. '85 we got about a foot and a half of snow, and it's still 
talked about as "our big snow storm". <G>  Maybe by the end of Oct. 
our leaves will start to turn.

> 
> No dry cleaning--you want to preserve the lanolin in the wool.  If 
something gets on it, you just blast it with a garden hose and then 
let it dry.
> 
> Peg

The garden hose?  Really?  LOL!  That's great!  I would so love to 
see lots of people out and about dressed in cloaks.  Pre-HP, I 
probably would have felt like Vernon Dursley at the beginning of SS.  
Now, however, I'd want to join in.

Kelley